COLUMBIA, Mo. — It doesn’t take a football genius to spot the obvious storyline when Missouri kicks off its 2025 football season on Thursday.

If your instinctual guess starts with “quarterback” and ends with “competition,” you’re on the right track. But at this point in the Tigers’ signal-caller saga, you know the drill. Or at least know some of the drill.

Beau Pribula and Sam Horn will split reps, as coach Eli Drinkwitz specified last week. Per ESPN, that’ll be Pribula taking the first half and Horn playing the second — a mirror image of the Brady Cook-Horn competition from 2023. If this goes like the 2023 opener did, the quarterback decision will look like a pre-determined outcome in favor of the first-half’s QB.

So for Mizzou’s 6:30 p.m. kickoff against Central Arkansas on the SEC Ne

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